Gadgetory

the Nexus dual screen smartphone with massive screens on both the front and back of the phone it's time to take this unique looking contraption apart and see how its put together next thing you know they'll be taking things a step farther and trying to go bezel this on both sides instead of just the front totally fine with me this video is sponsored by audible let's get started when I open up a strange new phone for the first time I'm usually going in blind it's not like vivo includes a disassembly instruction booklet with the phone I am the instruction booklet there are two visible t2 screws down at the bottom that can be removed but then I'm left deciding which side of the phone comes off first the rear like most glass back phones and the previous dual screen Nubia X or is it the front that comes off I decided to heat things up and start with the rear and I chose wrongly the goal of these tear downs is to reassemble the phone and get it back together in one piece after I take it apart so obviously we aren't off to a very good start the phone still works though just a cosmetic crack so I'll turn the whole thing back off again and we'll try to enter the forbidden internals through the front route we don't know the adhesive level of the phone since there's no IP rating but I'm going to warm it up anyway because that's just what usually needs to happen with modern smartphones now sliding my tools between the plastic edge of the big screen and the metal frame of the phone we can start to see a gap forming meaning this time we're going in the right direction from a build perspective having screens on both sides of the device makes it hard to tell which side needs to open first and this phone is even weirder than I anticipated when lifting off the screen the entire phone body comes with it battery motherboards and everything is attached directly to the screen I did not see that coming removing the screen leaves only the metal frame and secondary rear screen behind the back panel does have two ribbons snaking up towards the motherboard I'll unscrew the five silver Phillips head screws holding down the long metal ribbon cable bracket and I'll unclip the sensor ribbon but I'll leave the screen ribbon intact for now I kind of want to see if we can get both screens working side by instead of front and back this might not be the smartest thing to do but I've already done Dumber things today what can I hurt might as well see if it's possible while I'm in here I got both greens that you waited side by side and I can press the power button with my finger and it looks like we're successful so far I can use the three finger slide trick to transfer the screen from one side of the phone to the other and since the phone still thinks it's in one piece it works we should totally try out one of these apps to see if that works too hmm huge thanks to audible for sponsoring this teardown and supporting my channel the latest book I've been listening to is called 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screen connector ribbon and pop that off releasing the back panel and the rear screen I guess technically the rear screen can be replaced without replacing the whole housing but with the weird circular camera lens thing it's hard to say for sure how exactly that might happen weird phones make for some weird repairs we'll know more when replacement parts hit the market all unplugged the side button ribbon to make space for the battery removal super nice of evo to make removing the battery easy no broken pull tabs and no damage done to the 3500 milliamp hours during removal there are two more Phillips head screws holding down the long silver plate overtop of all three rear camera connectors then I'll find the two more screws over top of our little friend the head jack up here at the top corner it's got its own little metal plate but when that comes out look how small this guy is it's super impressive that vevo can have two massive screens a big battery and still have room left over for the headphone jack I'll remove the four screws holding down the motherboard keeping the screws organized of course and then I'll unclip the two bottom remaining extension ribbons and the two wire cables then the motherboard is free for us to take a look at surprisingly there is no thermal paste on this board like there is on most other flagships these days and even though this phone has only been alive for a few hours the metal above the processor does appear to be discolored by heat I'm no expert but I would like to see this phone benchmarked next to a similar respect flagship and see which one thermally throttles first no thermal paste might be an issue down the road up here we have something called a tof camera or time-of-flight it's a self-contained 3d system that measures distance and can produce some pretty cool 3d renderings of objects I think vivo is mostly just using this for fancy beauty modes in the camera settings for right now but the future applications might be pretty fun there are two regular cameras in here as well a 12 megapixel main camera with its 2 megapixel depth sensor sidekick the main camera does have optical image stabilization and both cameras are housed in separate units if you remember from the durability test this phone has a speaker grille on both the front side and the back side the ambidextrous smartphone can make calls from either screen and the earpiece inside is what makes this all possible allowing sound to escape from both the front and back of the speaker pretty cool the vibrator motor is this cute little guy over here on the left it's an eccentric rotating mass motor a bit different than the coin style or taptic vibrators we are used to seeing these days but even though it's an older style vibrator it still gets the job done remember this phone does have an N screen fingerprint scanner which is hidden down here at the bottom under the 8 screws one of which has a warranty void sticker on it which means we should probably stop the teardown just kidding man that joke never does get old I'll pop off the protective metal plate over the extension ribbon and under screen fingerprint scanner connector then I can remove the loudspeaker this thing does have a bit of the water-resistant mesh covering the speaker hole which is good for the charging port board I'll unplug the extension ribbon and the white wire cable and then the board itself congestion me out of the frame we see a bit more of the water resistance here around the USBC opening with this black rubber ring we also have a square white water damage indicator residing next to the SIM card tray if you remember vivo was the first smartphone manufacturer to introduce an in screen fingerprint scanner back in 2017 back then it was a literal square chunk of the screen that maid repair pretty impossible but this time around vivo is using the same style of sensor that we saw in the oneplus 60 a simpler version quite literally just a camera that shines up through the display to take a picture of your fingerprint you can see the hole in the middle frame that lets us view the underside of the AMOLED screen and the light from my personal phone can shine up through the screen into the hole it works the other way around as well when the screen is turned on it lights up your finger with an animation so the camera underneath can take a good picture thumbs up for that vivo is definitely one of the leaders in innovation right now they've been making some pretty phenomenal and unique phones I'll get the charging port back into place along with the loudspeaker and the eight screws holding everything down then I'll get the two rear cameras back in place and scooch the motherboard down over the top making sure that no ribbons get pinched underneath the itty bitty but always useful headphone jacks knuckles down into its slot in the frame and then I can screw in the motherboard slide the battery back into place and make sure all the ribbon cables are plugged in with the metal brackets holding everything tight since both front and rear screens are pretty difficult to replace this phone's not going to be winning any repairability Awards but at least the battery can be swapped out pretty easily and now that we know how the phone opens that particular step will be easier in the future as well I'll take both of the rear panel ribbons and clip them onto the motherboard along with plugging in the battery then I can screw down the large metal plate that keeps the connections secure I'll turn the phone on before sandwiching it back together just to make sure everything's working and lucky for us everything still functions the triple finger swipe still swap screens and let's just pretend I opened up the phone right the first time around and I didn't damage anything all right I don't see any cracks do you congratz DeVivo for keeping the smartphone world interesting I'll be looking forward to seeing what they have in store for us this year don't forget 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